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Data Centers Continue to Proliferate While Their Energy Use Plateaus

Berkeley Lab’s Art Rosenfeld Recognized with Tang Prize for Sustainable Development

Researchers Gear Up Galaxy-seeking Robots for a Test Run

Photo - Parker Fagrelius inspects ProtoDESI, a prototype system for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. ProtoDESI will be tested at the Mayall Telescope in Arizona in August and September. (Paul Mueller/Berkeley Lab)

New Mathematics Accurately Captures Liquids and Surfaces Moving in Synergy

Massive Trove of Battery and Molecule Data Released to Public

New Chemical ‘Sponges’ Designed to Soak Up Toxic Cancer-fighting Drugs After Targeting Tumors

Photo - A close-up view of a sample of a polymer-based membrane material created at Berkeley Lab. The material, which originally had a light-yellow hue, turned red after soaking up a chemotherapy drug. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Radiation 101: DoseNet Delivers Environmental Data as an Educational Tool

Screenshot - A DoseNet interactive map screenshot showing San Francisco-area monitoring locations. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

New Berkeley Lab Study Tallies Environmental and Public Health Benefits of Solar Power

Berkeley Lab Participates in New National Microbiome Initiative

$40M to Establish New Observatory Probing Early Universe

Photo - The Simons Array will be located in Chile's High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right) and the Simons Array (the three telescopes at the bottom left, middle and right). The Simons Observatory will incorporate several new telescopes and set the stage for a next-generation experiment. (University of Pennsylvania)

Scientists Take a Major Leap Toward a ‘Perfect’ Quantum Metamaterial

Illustration - The wavelike pattern at the top shows the accordion-like structure of a proposed quantum material—an artificial crystal made of light—that can trap atoms in regularly spaced nanoscale pockets. These pockets can be made to hold a large collection of ultracold “host” atoms (green), slowed to a standstill by laser light, and individually planted “probe” atoms (red) that can be made to transmit quantum information in the form of a photon (particle of light). The lower panel shows how the artificial crystal can be reconfigured with light from an open (hyperbolic) geometry to a closed (elliptical) geometry, which greatly affects the speed at which the probe atom can release a photon. (Credit: Pankaj K. Jha/UC Berkeley)

Berkeley Lab Scientists Brew Jet Fuel in One-Pot Recipe